Happy Summer! I wanted to share the finished surface design of Tiles I: Memories of Roses:

So many different ideas came together to make this tiled surface. I've enjoyed every moment. Now that the last tile is fused solidly to the black felt batting, I have it hung on the wall while I think about how to quilt it. It won't be a great deal of quilting but the ideas are still mulling so its on the wall for contemplation.

I've had to tear down my work area as we are about to list our cottage and property on the market and need to take pictures. It was timely to finish the surface work because I can leave up my sewing machine until we actually move and that means I can get the pile of unfinished quilts worked on. I've recently discovered that twin grandchildren are in my future, so there's that delightfulness. Plus other free motion work I want to do. It feels like good timing and I'm rolling right through the open door that will be bringing me home for good.

I'm hooking up with Nina Marie and Off the Wall Friday:

http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

I wish you Hope!

Love, Sue

Surface design from a surface design

I started 'Golden Memories' some months ago. I got this far:

At this point I was a bit stuck. Fortune smiled when I attended the April SAQA PA meeting. The suggestion was made to echo the far upper rightside, purple image. (Does anyone else say left when they mean right, and vice versa, too?) It reminds me of a shadowy sense of friends sitting together, part of which inspired the title's piece. Per the suggestion to echo the images, I am working on a stencil:

The plan is to make the stencil using a razor cutter, practice a method of dabbing paint that will resemble the original, and then implement the design. I've thought of reducing the size and trying it in differing sizes and places. There really is only so much room for this treatment though, so I'd rather be editorial in advance, and see how it goes.

I'm hooking up with Nina Marie's Off The Wall Friday:

http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

Hope you are having success in your undertakings!

Sue